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Patented July '12, 1881.

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MACHINE FOR ATTACHING TAGS TO PLUG-TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,273, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed May 4, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, AUGUST MARKERT, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Machine forAttaching Tin Tags to Plug- Tobacco, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the attaching of tin tags and the strips of paper commonlyused with them to pieces of plugtobacco.

The invention consists ina vertically-slidin g platform provided with suitable gages, 860., pressed upward by springs, and provided with a removable longitudinal strip with apertures of the same size and shape as the tags, into which apertures a series of vertical posts of the base of the machine project. The tags are placed upon the upper end surfaces of the posts with the prongs projecting upward, and the strips of paper and pieces of plug-tobacco are placed upon the platform, upon which the piece of tobacco, and consequently the platform also, are depressed, and as the posts are rigid the tobacco can only be depressed until the same rests on the posts; but by this operation the prongs of the tags have been forced into the tobacco.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved machine for attaching tin tags to plug-tobacco. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a modification of the perforated strip of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of another modification of the same. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the machine. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a piece of plug-tobacco having a strip of paper and tin tags attached thereto. Fig.7 is aperspective view of one of the tin tags.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. I

A vertically-sliding platform, A, with alongitudinal slot, B, is formed of the two strips B B on opposite sides of the standards 0, and united by the transverse strips D. A strip, E, with a series of equidistant perforations or apertures, F, which are spaced according to the desired size of the subdivisions of the plug-tobacco, fits in the slot B of the platform A, this strip E resting on the transverse strips D. A series of uprights or vertical posts, G G, of the base H of the machine are arranged in a right line directly below the strip E, the posts G being-spaced the same as the apertures F, these posts G passing into the apertures when the platform Ais depressed. Spiral springs J are coiled around the end posts, and, resting against the transverse strips D, press the platform A up against the stops K K of the uprights O G. The posts G are of such length that their upper ends will be a short distance below the upper surface of the platform A when the latter is pressed up against the stops K K, as is shown in Fig. 4. A gage, L, sliding on the platform A when the latter is raised, is attached to a screw, M, passing through one of the standards 0. A gage, N, is held on the platform A by the screws 0 and nuts P, and is adjustable parallel with the slot B. This gage N can be so adjusted that the longitudinal center line of a piece of tobacco will be exactly over the longitudinal center line of the strip Ethat is to say, it it is adjusted for a piece of tobacco of a certain width, the other pieces of the same width need only be placed against the gage, and their longitudinal central line will coincide with that of the perforated strip E.

The tin tags T may be round, square, longitudinal, or in the shape of a shield, 850., and are provided with two upturned prongs or jaws, S S. If the tags T are shield-shaped, the

strip E must have corresponding recesses F, as shown in Fig. 2; or if the tags are to be rectangular, corresponding recesses F must be provided in the strip E.

Q represents the piece of plug-tobacco to which the tags are to be attached, and R a strip of gilt or silvered paper, which is placed upon the piece of plug-tobacco, and held on the same by the tags.

A table or board, I, is held above the base H on the same level with the platform A when the same is raised.

The operation is as follows: The tin tags are passed into the recesses formed by the apertures F and the posts G, (filling part of these apertures,) with thepron gs extending upward. A strip, R, of gilt, silvered, or colored paper is then placed upon the perforated strip E, with the colored side downward, and a piece of plug-tobacco, Q, is placed on strip E in the spaceB. If this piece of plug-tobacco is pressed downward, the platform must go with it, and finally the piece of tobacco will rest on the posts G; but before this the prongs S have passed through the strip of paper R and into the tobacco. Thus are held the tag and the strip of paper to the tobacco.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Ina machine for attaching tin tags to plug-tobacco, the combination, with the vertically-sliding platform A, of the independent and removable strip E, provided with apertures F, and of the posts or uprights Gr below the strip E, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a machine for attaching tin tags to plug-tobacco, the combination, with the vertically-sliding platform A, of the apertured independent and removable strip E,the posts or uprights G, the springs J, and the stops K, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a machine for attaching tin tags to plug-tobacco, the combination, with the platform A, of the apertured strip E, the posts G, and the adjustable gages L and N, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

AUGUST MARKERT.

Witnesses:

AMBRos CONRAD, CHARLES FRANKLE. 

